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Cruiser
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Capitol Region of NH | Why would Victory, an all american company, put a horn of their bikes that sounds worse than a import compact car? |
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| That's a great question. Pretty weak isn't it. I took mine off and put an air horn on. |
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Cruiser
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Capitol Region of NH | I plan to do the same thing. Just haven't decided which one or where to mount it. I had one on my 08 Vision that I really liked, it was self contained with trumpets. I mounted it under the left side cheese wedge. |
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Iron Butt
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Tri Cities, WA | Yeah the horn they put on is damn weak to say the least. We too plan to replace it as well.
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Puddle Jumper
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Kokomo, IN | I agree. When I honk my horn people think there's an old Plymouth Road Runner behind them. Beep! Beep! |
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New user
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| what type of horn do you need to get normal car sound or as stated "road runner" sound? is it an air horn or just the type of standard horn |
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Puddle Jumper
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Sydney - AUSTRALIA | All bikes that I've riden have had terrible horns and Victory is no different. Whenver I buy a bike one of the first things I do is install an air horn, specifically a Stebal Nautius (I know they are out of business but you can still get their horns and if not there are other comparable ones on the market). The only bike I have ever known to have a half decent factory horn is the Goldwing. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Glendale, AZ. | I changed mine out for a Stebel 113 decebel really loud. I munted it under the fairing and it's still really loud. Amazon $49.95
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| Did you have to do anything special in hooking this up? Did you use a relay? If so, can you post up a wiring diagram? |
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Puddle Jumper
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Glendale, AZ. | You remove the stock horn and install the relay in its place. connect the stock horn black wire to post #85 on relay. connect the grey wire from the stock horn to post #86 on relay connect wire from battery with a fused link to post #30 on relay connect wire from positive side of stebel horn to #87 on relay connect negative side of Stebel horn to ground
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| I did that exact same thing...only relay is inside fairing. But my flashers blink every time I hit horn button. I must have a bad relay and feeding power back to oem flasher relay. OEM flasher relay is on same circuit as stock horn switch. Gonna get a new relay and see if that cures it. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Leduc Alberta Canada | NOEMTZ - 2012-08-03 2:59 PM
I did that exact same thing...only relay is inside fairing. But my flashers blink every time I hit horn button. I must have a bad relay and feeding power back to oem flasher relay. OEM flasher relay is on same circuit as stock horn switch. Gonna get a new relay and see if that cures it.
Noe,
How did you attach the ground wire?
I had the same problem until I ran the ground right off the battery. |
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| did it both ways...and it did the same both times. |
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| still suspect relay....went to my local auto parts...but were sold out of auxilary 12 volt relays that were identical to the one with horn.
will try again another day. |
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Tourer
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northwest florida | do you have LED lights in your turn signals?
http://www.webbikeworld.com/lights/1156-led-replacement-bulb/ |
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Puddle Jumper
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Comfort, Texas | All motorcycle horns that I know of are weak?
Motorcyclists need someone to advocate for safety features to be installed/designed on all motorcycles in the USA. Just as there are for automobiles.
Here is my solution for incompetent cagers: ![Victory XC - Air Horns]("C:\Users\1129397396C\Pictures\Victory\My_XC_ LS2.jpg" "Victory XC - Air Horns")
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What's with the horn on 2012 CCT?
